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Romance
by Cecelia Ahern
Told entirely through letters, emails, and notes passed across decades, this is the story of two lifelong best friends whose timing for real love never quite lines up. Cecelia Ahern's epistolary novel is funny, heartfelt, and refreshingly clean — a slow-build romance you'll be rooting for from page one.
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ContemporaryRomance
Kitty Arthur
Trudie works at a bookshop called The Nook and has kept her world small and safe since the loss that shrank it. Then handwritten letters from her aunt begin to arrive, one after another, each setting her a task: change the lives of five people inside a year. A warm small-town romance about being nudged back out into the world by someone who knew you well.
ContemporaryRomance
Sarah Jio
New York banker June Andersen inherits her great-aunt Ruby's children's bookshop in Seattle and plans to sell it. Then she finds letters between Ruby and Margaret Wise Brown, the author of Goodnight Moon, hinting at the story behind the classic. A warm novel about books, family and starting over.
HistoricalRomance
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
In 1946, London writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger on Guernsey who has found her name in a secondhand book. Their correspondence draws her into the lives of a book club formed during the German occupation. A funny, heartfelt novel in letters.
